$150,000K a year is barely enough to own a sandbox anymore -- Quidities Thread for ILXile

perhaps you don't interact w/ these people but there are *millions* of middle class people in the nyc metro area who don't live in the projects or depend on rent control

I understand that facile condescension is something you can't resist, but a) I'm speaking of Manhattan and not the NYC metro area, and b) duh.

My point was that the figures are impacted substantially by government assistance, among other factors.

What iatee said, but also public housing and rent control exist, and people who live in Manhattan and the NYC metro area are using them and surviving. 'Extreme variations from the median' doesn't mean that the median isn't representative of the people who live there.

It's unrepresentative in the sense that if people had to actually pay full value for their housing, their salaries would have to be increased, or they would have to move. Either way, median salary would be (possibly substantially) higher.

There are also a fair number of young people in Manhattan whose salaries are subsidized by other sources including parents, under the table income, illegal activity, etc., without which they cold not make it here.

Not that that isn't true other places as well, but both the degree and dollar figures involved may be much greater in NYC.

my argument was "middle class people can live in new york" not "middle class people can live in the most expensive part of new york"

C.K. Dexter Holland, will you come back to the real ILX once that's back up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH_9lU7UBHY#t=0m33s

Damn embedding - try 0:33 in.

Maybe this is the real ilx! Ever think bout that? xp

ilx, just realness

Mr. Hill gave a talk about the importance of personal downsizing, which was largely a talk about his life. Having made a lot of money in Internet businesses, Mr. Hill said, he first bought a big house and car and then got rid of possessions and traveled the world with only two bags, before moving into a trailer in Baja California, Mexico, and then into a cousin's garage in Maui, Hawaii. He found that he was quite happy.

Mr. Hill then gave a talk on the importance of identifying the most promising dumpsters within easy walking distance of one's cousin's garage and demonstrated how to prevent a shopping cart wheel from "going crazy".

absolutely cannot understand the appeal of living in a mansion

― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:41 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

i can understand not giving a fuck abt some contempo monstrosity, but man living in an old sprawling victorian palace would be so baller

*locks cooper chucklebutt up in a shuttered off remote wing of his sprawling victorian palace*

I feel like it would feel baller for 5 days, but then just start feeling like the shining

the shining is so baller (insane variant)

w/ fu

ilx is like a decrepid victorian mansion that has been used as a hunting retreat and school and a sanitorium and the ghosts of its different incarnations skulk around trying to relate to each other

amo, amas, amat

BANG! BANG!

(has photo taken with foot placed carefully on the carcass of a schoolchild)

(chortles and has a coughling fit, wherein bright red blood stains his handkerchief)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSYBRxr04BM

just killed ten minutes looking for pictures of julie as she looks today. no luck.

http://www.observer.com/2001/04/25yearold-broker-lee-munson-is-swaggering-relic-of-the-boom/

(from 4/02/01)

Last year, Mr. Munson said, he made more than $350,000.Hehas $100,000 in the bank and says that by the time he’s 40, he will be worth $28 million.

math

That story reads like "Random Guest at Coke Party Interviewed"

THE marriage game has no shortage of matchmakers, wedding planners, fashion stylists, floral designers and other referees.

Now joining their ranks is a group of consultants called proposal planners, who advise men, and sometimes women, who want to propose but are flummoxed about how to go about asking this life-altering question memorably.

For a fee, proposal planners promise to help plot a scenario for the key moment and assist in its execution, with just the right helicopter, hot-air balloon or gondola, and along with it the proper locale and musical accompaniment.

Sarah Pease, the owner of Brilliant Event Planning in New York, was focused solely on weddings and parties until 2008, when a friend proposed with an engagement ring at the bottom of a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. She then became a proposal planner as well.

Ms. Pease typically charges $500 for devising a plan; having her handle the whole operation can run $12,000, she said, plus any fees to those providing the transportation and site.

here's how you plan yr proposal:

1. buy a ring
2. ask yr partner to marry you

if your partner loves you, I guarantee you the proposal will be memorable

3. helicopter

4. kfc

my partner threw up later that night

should have read the signs tbh

Sarah Pease, the owner of Brilliant Event Planning in New York, was focused solely on weddings and parties until 2008, when a friend proposed with an engagement ring at the bottom of a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. She then became a proposal planner as well.

is this paragraph intentionally or accidentally bitchy

How does the idea of putting a ring in the bottom of a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken even happen, though? Like the only thing I can imagine being a worse idea is throwing the ring at the woman and screaming "DO YOU WANT TO GET MARRIED?"

How is that worse?

the ring is actually a bowling ball

hide the ring inside yr butthole #protip

that's actually how Bobby Brown proposed to Whitney Houston

encase the wedding ring inside a bowling ball

Throw the engagement ring into a room, scream "IF YOU WANT TO MARRY ME, GO FETCH THE RING!"

If the woman goes into the room, announce "I forgot to mention, inside this room, there are BEES!!!!!" as you lock the door.

Shout "BEEEEEEEEEEESSSS"

Tru <3 foreva

romance^

we are so going to put that woman out of business

don't you mean bees-ness

ILX Sandbox Proposal Idea and Honey Mfg Co.

how to go about asking this life-altering question memorably

oh, for crying out loud. eat leaden death, for you are unmasked as space aliens.

that's actually how Bobby Brown proposed to Whitney Houston

― OH NOES, Saturday, December 24, 2011 7:58 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

when whitney went to blow cocaine into bobbys butt there it was, she crey

https://www.facebook.com/people/Alison-Bamert/100001882422852

planners promise to help plot a scenario for the key moment and assist in its execution, with just the right helicopter, hot-air balloon or gondola, and along with it the proper locale and musical accompaniment

http://faculty.fullerton.edu/cmcconnell/H101A/Shark&Helicopter.bmp

the ring is inside the shark